I've found out that my favourite guy from DSDS, Thomas Godoj, has quite a few similarities to me: same birthday and originally from Poland, hence slovak roots. =) Ahhh, only makes me like him more. Here's his performance from the second Mottoshow:
Thomas Godoj - Same Mistake
Actually, if you look at the remaining candidates, it's hard to find someone who doesn't have roots from another country: Sicilian, Polish, Ghanian, Bosnian, Lebanese, Algerian/Dutch, Spanish/Romanian. The 9th remaining candidate is obviously 100% German - his last name is "Herd" which means "stove" in German. For some reason, Germans tend to have last names that actually mean something, most of the time related to food. Here's a list I found on the top 50 German surnames and their meaning:
Thomas Godoj - Same Mistake
Actually, if you look at the remaining candidates, it's hard to find someone who doesn't have roots from another country: Sicilian, Polish, Ghanian, Bosnian, Lebanese, Algerian/Dutch, Spanish/Romanian. The 9th remaining candidate is obviously 100% German - his last name is "Herd" which means "stove" in German. For some reason, Germans tend to have last names that actually mean something, most of the time related to food. Here's a list I found on the top 50 German surnames and their meaning:
Most-Common German Last Names
- Müller (Mueller, Möller) = miller
- Schmidt (Schmitz, Schmitt, Schmid) = smith
- Schneider = tailor
- Fischer = fisher
- Meyer (Meier, Maier, Mayer) = dairyman
- Weber = weaver
- Schulz (Schulze, Scholz) = mayor
- Wagner = wagoner, wainwright
- Becker = baker
- Hoffmann (Hofmann) = landed farmer
- Schäfer (Schaefer) = shepherd
- Koch = cook
- Bauer = farmer, peasant
- Schröder (Schroeder) = carter
- Klein = small, little
- Richter = judge
- Wolf = wolf
- Neumann = new man
- Schwarz = black
- Schmitz (Schmidt) = smith
- Krüger (Krueger) = potter
- Braun = brown
- Zimmermann = carpenter
- Schmitt (Schmidt) = smith
- Lange = long
- Hartmann = tough/strong man
- Hofmann (Hoffmann) = landed farmer
- Krause = curly-haired
- Werner = meaning uncertain
- Meier = dairyman
- Schmid (Schmidt) = smith
- Schulze (Schulz) = mayor
- Lehmann = serf
- Köhler (Koehler) = charcoal-maker
- Maier (Meyer) = dairyman
- Herrmann = warrior
- König (Koenig) = king
- Mayer (Meyer) = dairyman
- Walter = army leader; ruler
- Peters = rock (from Latin/Greek)
- Möller (Moeller, Müller) = miller
- Huber = land owner (hoover)
- Kaiser = emperor
- Fuchs = fox
- Scholz (Schulz) = mayor
- Weiß = white/wheat
- Lang = long
- Jung = young
- Hahn = rooster
- Keller = cellar, basement (i.e., someone who worked in a wine cellar or Rathskeller)
